Re: F24, small backward steps

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:44:38PM +0000, Debarshi Ray wrote:
>> (a) The maintenance status of a package is not a binary variable. It
>> is easy to imagine a third state - weakly maintained.
>
> Yes, THIS. Our current model does not really allow us to express this
> at all -- there's "orphaned", but that's not user-visible.

Our current model actually could express this though.  We could put
the weakly maintained packages in COPRs, and editions that wish to
include them can do so in their default repos.  There is also the
previous idea of the curated COPR playground.

We have the tools, we just need to use them.

josh
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